The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-05-29
Religious Notes.

Mr. George w. Cable is lecturine in Southern
towns on "Cobwebs in the Churches"
Dick Bennett. the Quaker horse-racer, aged
100 years. Joined the Christian Church at Ben
tonville Mo-, few weeks ago.
Emerson: Wien a man lives with God his
voice shall be as sweet as the murmur of the
brook and the rustic of the corn.
The Presby terrain Board of Foreign Missions
closes the year free from debt. Its receipts were
1888, 600, the largest In It's history
The evangelical work begun among the Chica-
go churches by Mr.. Moody is to be kept up dur
ing the summer by Major Whittle.
A Dakota organization has its letter head
these words: ''O1ice of the Brule County Horse
racing Association, successor TO the Young Mems
Christian Association
We call those poets who are first to mark
Through earth's dull mist the coming of tho dawn
Who see in twight's gloom the first pale spark,
While others only note that day is gone
Every in this age has not soul
OF crystal for all read their actions
Through Mems hearts and faces are SO far asunder
That they hold no intelligence
Dr. Robert Brown. who has visited Greenland
for botanical and geological studies. writes that
there is not now one profesSed pagan in all
Danish Greenland.
1t is reported that Mr.. Moody has received
from Englishman now in this country a letter
urging him TO make an evangelistic tour
through India. A check for $25, 600 was inclosed
in the letter.
Thirty five students of Cornell University have
expressed the desire it is said, to become foreign
missionaries. and these. it is also stated the
first in the history OF the university to contem-
plato the foreign field.
Rev. Thomas Green, Chicago Presbyterian
divine, is ardent admirer of baseball, and at
tends the professional games regularly, as do
several other wel-known ministers, Prof. David
Swing being among the number.
The Lutheran Church complains of lack in
the ministerial supply The new ministers
hardly numerous enough to fill the places va
tad AZ death SuperannuafiOn and OtheryiGa
The demands are very pressing just now, as i'm
migration Is very large.
The Amity Baptist Church. New York city,
began in 1897. with Rev John Williams rs pas
tor, who served them till his death. His son.
Rev. DR. William r. Williams. succeeded him
with passionate of fifty-two years, until his
death. IN April, 1885. His son, Rev Leighton
Williams. has just been ordained, having been
preaching supply since the death of his
father.
Mr.. Moody's second summer Bible-school for
college students will open at Northfeld, June 80
and last n fortnight Mr. Moody will himself be
in charge. and will be assisted by Rev. DIR. John
A. Broadus, of Louisville. Ky: Prof L. T.
Townsend of Boston University; ex- President
Mark Hopkins. of Williamstown Rev. DR.. Ar
thur T. Pierson. of Philadelphia; Rev. w. H.
Marquesse. of Fulton, No.. and Messrs. r. p.
Wilder and j. n. Forman, who have been visit
ing calleges during the past year in the interest
of foreign missions. Bible-teachers from Eng
land have also been invited, as well as English
university students.
The Interior: In the sad hours of our lives
how wildly, sometimes, comes back to the
recollection of that Man of Sorrows, of whom
our sainted mothers told sat leaned
upon their knees in the days of childhood as alb
sorbed and attentive listeners. We may have
thought but little of those dear old stories when
we were strong and our world was bright and
prosperous but when the dark hours come and
begin to feel that cannot walk alone,
how instinctlvely we turn to that Christ who
was often the pleasant theme of our mothers
talks, as the only one who make our bur-
dens toierable and our pathway cheerful.
At recent gathering of Friends in Worcester
England, the Rev. Henry Stanley Newman and
his wife were present and gave interesting
count of their visit to Palestine and Syria,
well ms to Constantinople. The Palestiuianssnis-
sion is Jerusalem, and it reported
being in q fiourishinG and in every way prosper
condition The Syrian mission station is in
the Lebanon district, and is called BrumaDa a
meeting house is being built at this static 1t is
to be "a strong and handsome structure, a. y. is to